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Severe overcrowding cause food shortage and people leave China.
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Many people wanted to get to America but did not have very much money so they had to take steerage.
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The horrible conditions on the ship made many people sick and people were relieved when they saw Angel Island or even cry with joy.
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The Chinese exclusion acts made it very hard to get into the country without getting detained and deported. When people were detained theyw were held for weeks.
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After the gold rush there were still many miners like coal miners that worked for companies instead of independent. It was easy to get the job as long as I worked a lower wage than everyone else.
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When the United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act many Chinese were deported. The first act was made in 1849 and finally were removed by 1943.
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I finally get out of the city after buying all of my supplies and move west to become a miner.
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After taking a train out west the mining experience was much different than I had imagined. Buy it was better than back home. When the Americans refused to work at such low wages the Chinese like me took their jobs for lower wages.
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After about a year of hard mining in the horrible conditions of the mine I start to come down with a cough.
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After mining with this cough the other miners start to notice and I get fired because I can’t work. I soon die of lung disease.
